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Thursday 10am Tutorial Team B 17

Introduction
Title of our educational program:
Enhancing students Asia literacy skills through direct
engagement of Asian cultures by using sister school
partnerships

Target school: St Dominics College Penrith, Kingswood

NSW
School Profile from myschool.com
Initiative as a project:
Japanese is offered in a limited capacity to year 8 and
year 10 students only.
An annual 10 days cultural trip to Japan to promote
Japanese language and cultural exchange between Japan
and Australia.
As a result, students and teachers outside of the Japanese
KLA have limited contact and understanding of Asia
literacy.
The lack of perceived relevance has resulted in other
faculties lacking in their support and implementation of
Asia literacy within their curriculum.
Objectives and outcomes of the project
To develop and promote Asia literacy within both students and
teachers with the implementation of exchange programs.
This program brings overseas students to learn and share their
experiences within the school community across a range of
KLAs.
This program will also provide a catalyst for teachers outside of
language KLAs to connect and engage students in Asia literacy
within their own subject areas.
Furthermore, this project aims to rectify the small overall
impact the current cultural exchange has through the
establishing of a sister school.
Looking to the future
However, depending on the results and success of the
program a range of aspects within the program can further be
developed and implemented including
Expanding Asia literacy context by involving different
KLA such as mathematic history, English. If we have good
Asian studies examples, for different subjects, students will
see the benefit of learning Asian languages as part of their
education. Placing Asian case studies in history, geography,
even mathematic, will encourage students to see the
importance of Asia and could help increase demand for Asian
language learning later on.
 It is because of approximately 12% ( My School, 2017)
from language backgrounds other than English, so it is
significantly for the school to develop and offering a wider
range of Asian language different sub-regions for
students to undertake example
North-East Asia including China, Japan, Mongolia, North
Korea, South Korea and Taiwan
South-East Asia including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia,
Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
South Asia including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the
Maldives, Nepal.
 Development and implementation of school relationship in a
wider variety of Asia based school within a variety of Asian
nations

Further development of in-depth and detailed Asia literacy related

units of work. teachers should priorities Asian case studies and
examples when developing classroom content

Expansion of the student exchange program and its frequency.

Long-term support for both Asian studies and languages will be
key, teachers must acknowledge the important of Implementing
long-term programs which support both Asian studies and
languages concurrently will give us the best chance of success.

Further development of sister school relationships and the

collaboration of projects through the use of ICT